Greece

Greece is asking for an emergency Eurozone Summit

26/04/2016

Europe News

EU ministers approve PNR legislation

EU governments have formally approved new legislation to share air passenger data. The decisions came at a meeting of EU interior and justice

21/04/2016

Europe News

EU regulators mull new tax rules for major firms

EU regulators are mulling new rules on tax avoidance by major multinationals amid the fallout from the Panama Papers. Proposed legislation will be

11/04/2016

Europe News

EU's Moscovici urges tougher action on tax havens

The European Commission on Thursday renewed its vow to tackle global tax avoidance following the publication of the so-called Panama Papers. It made

07/04/2016

Europe News

Brussels "still in shock" one week after suicide bomb attacks

Authorities at Brussels Zavatem airport say it could take months before the airport reopens at full capacity. On Tuesday, staff were carrying out

29/03/2016

Hungary

EU Commission questions legality of Hungary's migrant referendum

The European Commission says Hungary’s planned referendum on the EU’s quota plan for asylum seekers may be at odds with an agreed strategy to handle

25/02/2016

Real Economy

Reforming to tackle structural challenges

Severe belt-tightening may have helped Europe's public finances, but restoring growth will need more than savage structural reforms which, in one case of bust to boom, have not even been needed.

22/02/2016

Europe News

European Commission won't campaign for Britain to remain in EU

The European Commission has said it will not campaign for Britain to stay inside the EU. A spokesman for the EU executive said it would not play an

22/02/2016

World News

EU reform draft to avoid Brexit

With the sound of eurosceptics banging on the door of 10 Downing Street getting louder and louder, David Cameron’s decision to deal with Britain’s

15/02/2016

Europe News

Thousands of steel workers descend upon Brussels to defend Europe's struggling steel industry

Steel workers from all over Europe protested in Brussels Monday to stop the EU from granting market-economy status to China. Protesters fear the move would make it harder for European companies protec

15/02/2016

Europe News

Greece is given three months to tighten border controls

The EU is turning up the heat on Greece, giving it three months to fix serious holes in border protection. In a bid to stem the influx of migrants

12/02/2016

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU turns up heat over migrant crisis

In this edition of Europe Weekly, the migrant crisis dominates. The EU is calling for more effort and solidarity within the bloc to reduce the flow

12/02/2016

Europe News

Greece under renewed pressure to help fix migrant crisis

As migrants continue to brave winter weather to get to Europe, Athens is coming under renewed pressure to control the flow. The European Commission

10/02/2016

Europe News

EU OK's Portuguese government's spending plans

Portugal’s new socialist government has seen its first ‘anti-austerity’ budget approved by the European commission. Since 2013, the EU executive has

05/02/2016

Europe News

UK-EU talks: Donald Tusk to lay out new reform proposals

President of the European Council Donald Tusk says he will present a proposal for a “new settlement” between the UK and the European Union on

01/02/2016

Europe News

Pushing back refugee boats would be illegal, says Greek minister

euronews’ Efi Koutsokosta spoke to Greece’s EU affairs minister, Nikos Xydakis, about an EU report that accuses Athens of failing to register

28/01/2016

Europe News

Europe running out of time to solve refugee crisis, warns EU's Timmermans

Europe does not have “endless amounts of time” to come up with a solution to the influx of refugees and migrants to the continent, a top EU official

28/01/2016

Economy

New EU rules to stop businesses using legal loopholes to pay less tax

The EU is proposing new rules aimed at reducing annual tax losses of up to 70 billion euros from companies like Google, Amazon, Starbucks and Apple using aggressive tax avoidance.

28/01/2016

Europe News

EU seeks greater powers to police car industry after VW row

EU regulators want more powers to fine carmakers for faulty vehicles after the Volkswagen scandal. They want to be able to fine companies 30,000

27/01/2016

Europe News

EU warns Greece over border controls

The European Commission has said that Greece has “seriously neglected” its frontier duties to Europe’s free-travel Schengen zone. It said that Greece

27/01/2016